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the others. He finds them dead except his sister, Maryam. She has a noose around her neck and is standing on a plane wing with Mussa on the other side. So he has a choice either kill Mussa and risk losing Maryam or save her and be killed. Maryam sacrifices herself and Mussa is killed. Eissa goes back to Qais and Gulbin to find him dead and Gulbin standing there; she speaks the common tongue and was the mastermind. She explains this was a test to find people to join their group (alif-yaa) who are going to build civilization back up and tells him to meet them in
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keep them permanently. Eissa insists they keep them as they saved his father's life, while the others say they cannot be trusted. Maryam states she doesn't trust Mussa, as Gulbinâwho does not speak the common tongueâis scared of him. Jamaal, another survivor in the factory, mentions that Mussa still has a knife on him. The group has a rule, that weapons must be locked in a cabinet. When Shoaib asks for the knife, Mussa kills him, shouts that the earth is only for the worthy, and leaves.
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due to these conflicts taking frightening twists. Shoaib listens to the man's advice and takes his two children Eissa and Maryam to seek shelter. One of the political parties decides to make matters worse by contaminating the water supply. Most of the population dies out of fear and hunger in the upcoming years; however Shoaib and his family along with seven others find shelter with clean water in an abandoned airplane factory.
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The Worthy is a narrative film that describes what will happen in a post-apocalyptic future where political conflicts go out of hand. The story begins with a truck driver that goes by the name of Shoaib (also known as Abu Eissa) picking up a stranger. The stranger warns him of what danger is to come
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He comes across the man whom his father had encountered, the Seer, who explains that the group was formed to rebuild civilization, but the catastrophe lowered people's standards and they accepted crazed people who liked the chaos. That is why he left and Shoaib helped him leave. Eissa leaves in the
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Later, Eissa, Qais, and Reya (Raed's wife) go in search of water. They discover Jamaal tied and mutilated. This turns out to be another trap, which leads to Reya's death. Eissa and Qais return to the factory to find Gulbin, who was on watch, bleeding. Qais stays with her, while Eissa goes to help
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in the Arabic movies section. It was a very low budget movie, and Image Nation, the production company, always struggled to attract people to its movies internationally, but The Worthy seemed to be the one that changed this tendency with a mitigated reception of it. The budget and the revenue are
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Mussa starts killing off the survivors, first by turning off the water supply and booby-trapping its valve. Raed, a former teacher, dies and Daoud is injured. Jamaal distrusts Gulbin and falls out with Eissa who takes a liking towards Gulbin. Eissa, who is now leader, expels him.
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